566 



GENERAL INDEX. 



Queries unanswered. See Queries and An- 



swers. 

 Rainbow, double, E. G.'s problem on, pro- 

 posed, iii. 544 ; noticed as remaining un- 

 solved, iv. 79. 

 Sandpipers, a monograph on the, wanted, 

 78. Shakspeare's allusions to natural ob- 

 jects proposed to be identified with the par- 

 ticular species in natural history alluded to, 

 425. 

 "Whitethroats, a monograph on the, wanted, 78. 



" "Widgeons, a monograph on the, wanted, 78. 



Hints on local botany, 181. 



Horsechestnut tree (^E'sculus Hippocastanum), 

 description of, 238. 



Hydr6philus piceus, nest of, 151. 



Hygrometry, remarks on, 192. 



Hymenopterous insect parasitic in a nidus of a 

 spider, 236. 



Incubation of water-fowl, Waterton's remarks 

 on, 516. 



Ink, Indian, derived from the sepia of the Nah- 

 tilus, 138. 



Insects and Crustacea, discoveries of MtlUer and 

 others on the vision of, 124. 220. 363. 



Insects captured by Mr. Dale in Hampshire, 

 Dorsetshire, Devonshire, Cornwall, &c., in 

 1829 and 1830, 265 ; captured by Mr. Hewit- 

 son, in Wiltshire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire, 

 &c., in 1831, 265; some caught on the top of a 

 stage-coach, 265. 



Insects, foreign, trade in, 148; humane method 



, of depriving of life, 149 ; killing large ones, 

 149 ; hermaphrodite, 150. 434 ; from Melville 

 Island, 22; instrument or trap for catching 

 all flying kinds of, 436 ; rare species taken in 

 Yorkshire, 166. 



Instinct, definitions of, 157. 498. 



Instrument for catching all kinds of flying in- 

 sects, 436. 



Intellectual faculties of brute animals, 498. 



Ireland, natural history in, 167. 269. 452. 



Ireland, recent and rapid formation of peatbogs 

 in, 543 ; /''ris tuberdsa, a native of Ireland, 

 28. 439. 



jMs tuberosa, a native of Ireland, 28. 439 ; re. 

 marks on its rate of flowering in gardens, 29. 



Island, Graham, volcanic formation of, 545. 



Italy, natural history in, 263. 



Kelp principally derived from the British A'lges, 

 61. 



Kingfisher, habits of, 82 ; in Buckinghamshire, 

 267 ; in Suffolk, 450 ; occurs only in winter in 

 one part of Yorkshire, in Warwickshire all 

 the year, 275. 



Kitten, suckled and brought up by a spaniel 

 bitch, 142. 



Knife found in timber, buried in Iri^h peat bogs, 

 534. 



Lambs, monstrous, 404. 431. 



Lancashire, natural history in, 72. 



Land birds met with at sea, 145. 



La Plata, the river, source of, 397. 



Leicestershire, plants found in, 162. 



Lesson, M., his reply to Mr. Vigors, 487. 



Lombardy poplar, water secreted by, 32. 34. 



London, natural history in, 65. 158. 



Londonderry, birds at and near, 260. 452 ; qua- 

 drupeds at and near, 452. 



Limestone, magnesian, used by farmers as ma- 

 nure, 157. 



Limpet, habits and locomotion of, 346. 



Linnean Society, reports of, 68. 



Luminosity of the sea, 500. 505. 



Maccaw, hyacinthine, observations on, 104. 211. 

 486. 



Magazine, management of, 455, 456. 



Mammae in males, 210. 



Mammoth, jaw and teeth, description of, 240. 



Manchester, some account of the Banksian So- 

 ciety in, 448. 



Marten, a new species of, 147 ; late appearance 

 of, 431 ; the black (Tfirundo y4>us), on, 344. 



Martens, swallows, swifts, habits of, 38. 520. 



Melitas^o Euphn'isynf and Sel{:nc, single-brooded 



• insects, 478. 558. 



Melville Island, insects from, 22. 

 Mendip hills, potato stone of the, 190. 383. 

 Menzifesm polifblia, and /Jolifblia white, found 



in Ireland, 167. 

 Meteoric stone, account of the fall of, in Oxford" 



shire, 139. 

 Meteorology. See Weather, Calendar of Nature, 



Scotland, and Collectanea. 

 Microscope, a cheap work on, with lithographic 



W plates, wanted, 180. 

 ineral treasures of Britain, 2. 



Miscellaneous Intelligence, 68, 158. 263. 378. 445. 

 565. 



Missel thrush, on the, 183 ; song of, 144. 



Mite, a species of (Philodromus Zim^cum J(?n- 

 nings), parasitic on slugs, 538. 



Mollfisca, burrowing and stationary, 351. 



Molluscous animals, history of, 351.523; their 

 nervous system and senses, 523 ; sense of feel- 

 ing, 528 ; of taste, 529; of smell, 530; of sight, 

 531 ; of hearing, 536. 



Monstrosities in quadrupeds, 403. 431; in in- 

 sects ; Chrysomfela haem6ptera, with part.of an 

 extra leg, 21 ; an E'mphytus (.•'), with a'com- 

 plete extra leg, 21 ; E'later murinus, with a 

 branched antenna, 476. 



Moral influence of natural history, 41. in the 

 note. 



Mosses, use of the hygrometrical peristomes of, 

 135. 



Moth, death's head (SphfUiT A'tropos), met with 

 far at sea, 436 ; the Atlas, 150. 



Mllller and others, their discoveries on the vision 

 of insects and Crustacea, 124. 220. 363. 



Myses, are marine scavengers, 258. 



Natural history expedition, Russian, in Brazil, 

 394. 467. 



Natural history in the English counties, 159. 445, 



Natural history, moral influence of, 41. in the 

 note. 



Natural productions indigenous to Britain, 1. 

 273. 467. 



Nature, on the study of, 5. 41. 



A'autilus, description of the animal, 138 ; fossil 

 2Vautilus, found in the isle of Sheppey, 137. 



2^ep^nthes distillatbria, water secreted by, 32. 



Nettle, its sting analogous to that of the wasp, 

 393. 



Nidus of a spider, including a hymenopterous 

 insect, 236. 



Nightjar (Nyctichelidon europ£e"'us ^ewm'e),424. 



Nightjar, or goatsucker, pectinated claw of, 425. 



iV5ctua prje^cox, vitta, valligera, sagittifera, in 

 Devonshire, 445. 



Nomenclature, changes in, by Mr. Rennie, 424. 



Norfolk, collectors of the objects of natural his- 

 tory in, 177. 



Norfolk and Norwich museum, 269. 



Northumberland, birds shot at Greenhow, near 

 North Shields, 448. 



Nottinghamshire, natural history in, 70. 



Nuthatch, near Bedford, 275. 465. 



Oak trees, two found in the bed of the river 

 Trent, 70. 



Obituary: Thomas Carpenter, Esq., 192; Wil- 

 son, the celebrated ornithologist, 558. 



Observations, original, their importance, 426. 



Orkney and Shetland, ornithological visit to, in 

 1829, 193; deal fish of Orkney, 215. 



Oriole, the golden (Oriblus Galbula), shot in 

 1830 in Cheshire, 73. 



Ornithological Dictionary, Waterton's remarks 

 on Rennie's edition of, 516, 



Ornithological terms, improvement in, 181. 



Ornithological visit to Shetland and Orkney in 

 1828, 193. 



Ornitliology, See Birds. 



Oryctology, glance at that of part of Essex, 447. 



Oryctology. See Fossil. 



Owl, auditory aperture of the, 12 ; its utility in 

 game preserves, 180, 181 ; v/hite, a notice of, 

 428 ; the smaller horned (O^tus brachyotus), 

 its mode of defence in fighting with a hawk, 

 20. 



Oyster and the crab, l.'J7. 



I'araguay river, source of, 396. 



